“Life numbed, unceasing, interminable, from zero begins to zero it ends.” — Xiaobo Liu Copy Share Image
The very meaninglessness of life forces man to create his own meaning. — Stanley Kubrick Copy Share Image
“My life is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury. It means nothing.” — David Hewson Copy Share Image
“There is absolutely no worse death curse than the humdrum daily existence of the living dead.” — Anthon St. Maarten Copy Share Image
Meaning is man-created. And because you constantly look for meaning, you start to feel meaninglessness. — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“I had someone once who made every day mean something. And now…. I am lost…. And nothing means anything anymore.” — Ranata Suzuki Copy Share Image
We become victims of the great disease of technological society - meaninglessness. — Doris Janzen Longacre Copy Share Image
My poems, I think, exist in a state of tension between the love of natural beauty and the fear of natural meaninglessness… — Hayden Carruth Copy Share Image
It's their skins I'm peeling," she said. "The skins of the insipid scribblers, which I graft to the page, creating monsters of… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
Characters paralyzed by the meaninglessness of modern life still have to drink water from time to time. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Acts of violence-- Whether on a large or a small scale, the bitter paradox: the meaningfulness of death--and the meaninglessness of killing. — Dag Hammarskjold Copy Share Image
“In the West, we have been withdrawing from our tradition-, religion- and even nation-centred cultures, partly to decrease the danger of group… — Jordan B. Peterson Copy Share Image
I took to writing at an early age to escape from meaninglessness, uselessness, unimportance, insignificance, poverty, enslavement, ill health, despair, madness, and… — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
“In a Fisherian world, animals are slaves to evolutionary fashion, evolving extravagant and arbitrary displays and tastes that are all "meaningless"; they… — Richard O. Prum Copy Share Image
We like love - we love love - but perhaps its only meaning lies in its ubiquitous meaninglessness. We apprehend it, we… — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
“Your world is the world of coincidence, of meaninglessness. You choose the world that would have us as specks of dust, as… — Lauren Grodstein Copy Share Image
“we disgust works of art by our meaninglessness, our diffuseness in time which lets us drift through three score years and ten… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
I am absolutely convinced that meaninglessness does not come from being weary of pain; meaninglessness comes from being weary of pleasure. And… — Ravi Zacharias Copy Share Image
“Where are we headed? Are we not endlessly plunging —backwards, sideways, forwards, in all directions? Is there an up and a down… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Anxiety, alienation, loneliness, emptiness, and meaninglessness are the fruits of living as an isolated subject admist a multitude of lifeless objects. Although… — Stephen Batchelor Copy Share Image
I had motives for not wanting the world to have meaning; consequently assumed that it had none, and was able without any… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The greatest damage done by advertising is precisely that it incessantly demonstrates the prostitution of men and women who lend their intellects,… — Paul Baran Copy Share Image
“I had motives for not wanting the world to have a meaning; consequently assumed that it had not; and was able without… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Trying every day to tell the truth is hard. There are harder things, of course - arguably, living with lies and meaninglessness,… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
It is when we attempt to avoid suffering by withdrawing from anything that might involve hurt, when we try to spare ourselves… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
I think there will be a reaction - a reaction will set in against this communal dissociation. You know, man doesn't stand… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
“We believe because it gives us faith. It gives us the willingness to go through our day, to keep the existentialist threat… — Tarun Betala Copy Share Image
“For who brooded over the meaninglessness of life anymore? Teenagers. They were the only ones who were preoccupied with existential issues, and… — Knausgaard Copy Share Image
“The Second Koran tells us that the darkness in ourselves is a sinister thing. It waits until we relax, it waits until… — Maureen F. McHugh Copy Share Image
“I'm not unhappy, for the most part, although I do think there is a certain emptiness and meaningless that I feel, sort… — M.E. Thomas Copy Share Image
“Remember your Creator in the days of your youth, before the days of trouble come and the years approach when you will… — King Solomon Son of David Copy Share Image
“Even if I could write the book I want to write nobody would take it - I know my compatriots only too… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“What infinite heart's-ease Must kings neglect, that private men enjoy! And what have kings, that privates have not too, Save ceremony, save… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Grief turns out to be a place none of us know until we reach it...We might expect that we will be prostrate,… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
“A society coming apart at top and bottom, or passing over into another form, contains just as many possibilities for revelation as… — William Barrett Copy Share Image